State of Fear by Michael Crichton

This central concept of this book is Global Warming.

The main characters here are George Morton - a bilionaire environment conservationalist, his assistant Sarah, his lawyer Peter Evans, Nick Drake - the whos who of an environmental organization NERF , John Kenner - a brilliant scholar now with the CIA and his associate Sanjog- a geek.

The novel starts with enough mysterious activities to keep people glued to the book. The NERF is supposed to hold a conference on Abrubpt climate changes and also into news is the Vanatu suit against the goverment for global warming. Morton is incidentally the financer for these environment preservation activities when he without any clue withdraws his aid to NERF. He himself is suspected to be dead in a freak accident. What happens after that is a whirwind adventure trip for the unsuspecting Evans and Sarah. Kenner is the one who calls the shots from the time he barges into the scene after (and before) morton's death. It turns out that Kenner is out on a mission to prevent some nefarious activities sponsored by NERF itself. How and what is what one must read to find out

Surprisingly, the book makes to feel that global warming is a sham. It makes us feel that earthlings should continue living the way they are currently doing. Nature will take care of itself!! There is enough statistics and references in the book.

I would recommend this book only as a passtime, nothing to get excited about.

I was sort of dissapointed with the ending. It seemed too abrupt and fast!!

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